Description Des Festes Données Par la Ville De Paris, A l'occasion du Mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, & de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuviéme & trentiéme Août mil sept cent trente-neuf. First edition.
by Bouchardon, Edm.; Jacques François Blondel Soubeyran; Jac. Rigaud ; Salley ; (artists); Pierre-Gilles Le Mercier; Jacques-François Blondel; Antoine-Michel Padeloup; Philip Duke of Parma; Louisa Elizabeth de Bourbon
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A Paris,: De l'Imprimerie de P.G. Le Mercier, Imprimeur-Libraire ordinaire de la Ville, rue Saint Jacques, au Livre d'Or., M.DCC.XL. Avec Privilege Du Roy.. Large folio. 58.4 x 46.4cm. Contemporary half morocco and brown linen boards, restored with new matching endpapers.. 2 pages with manuscript flourishes with the name Lapie. Title page repaired in lower margin. Some pages with age stains in lower margins....[ii], 22 p., 13 pl. (8 dble.): [2] illus.; . (Folio.)General NoteSeven plates are unnumbered - pl. [2, 3, 5-7, 10, 11]. The eight double pl. are nos. 1, [2], 8-13. Plate 4 has been bound in as a frontispiece. The two illus. are a t.p. vignette and headpiece at the head of the text.Contents[Frontis., t.p.] - [Text] - [Plates].Responsibility NoteAll plates are signed as drawn and engraved by J.F. Blondel. Most carry also the name of a designer - Salley (pl. 1, 2, 6-9, 12, 13), Gabriel (pl. 3, 4), Servandony (pl.5) or Rousset (pl. 10, 11). The title-page vignette is signed as drawn by Edm. Bouchardon and engraved by Soubeyran; the headpiece is signed as drawn and engraved by Jac. Rigaud.Summary NoteThe plates are a record of the celebrations mounted in Paris on the occasion of the marriage of Louise Elisabeth, daughter of King Louis XV of France, and Filippo, Duke of Parma and son of King Philip V of Spain. (The marriage itself took place in Spain, at Alcala de Henares, on 25 October 1739.) The plates show: 1. Plan of the Seine; 2. Plan and elevation of a Temple of Hymen on Pont-Neuf; 3 & 4. Plan, profile and elevation of the throne; 5. Plan and elevation of the Salon de Musique; 6 & 7. Boats decorated with lanterns; 8. Plan and elevation of the Louvre terrace, showing tents; 9. Fireworks on the Seine; 10-13. Plans and sections of the Hôtel-de-Ville, showing the courtyard illuminated for the ball....Important Parisian festival book” (Bull. Morgand et Fatout, 11011).The engraved plates by J.-Fr. Blondel represent: the flat map of the part of the Seine where the celebrations were given; le temple de l’Hymen [the temple of the Hymen], setting of the fire work placed on the platform of the Pont-Neuf; élévation géométrale du trône [flat elevation of the throne] built so Their Majesties would see the celebration, executed after Gabriel’s drawings; le plan et l’élévation géométrale du salon de musique [the map and flat elevation of the music room] built in the middle of the river between the Pont-Neuf and the Pont-Royal ;les bateaux illuminés [the illuminated boats]. Plate 8 gives the élévation géométrale de la terrasse du bord de l’eau [flat elevation of the terraces along the water] where the tents were located for the retinue of their Majesties. Plate 9 gives us a vue générale de cette fête sur la Seine [general view of the celebration on the Seine] with all its settings, illuminations and fireworks. Beside these thirteen plates, the edition is illustrated with a fleuron drawn by Bouchardon and engraved by Soubeyran, and with a large vignette, used as letterhead, drawn and engraved by J. Rigaud, representing a joust on the Seine.These luxury works were covered more or less sumptuously. The sovereign and the princes of his family used to receive copies covered with dentelle morocco, ministers, morocco less richly decorated and the mere bishops, volumes modestly bound with calf – all of them bearing though in the center of the covers the arms of the city that had financed the enterprise...,.OCLC Number: 560727468
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- Description Des Festes Données Par la Ville De Paris, A l'occasion du Mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, & de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuviéme & trentiéme Août mil sept cent trente-neuf. First edition.
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- Bouchardon, Edm.; Jacques François Blondel Soubeyran; Jac. Rigaud ; Salley ; (artists); Pierre-Gilles Le Mercier; Jacques-François Blondel; Antoine-Michel Padeloup; Philip Duke of Parma; Louisa Elizabeth de Bourbon
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